ML622101715
Contributor
Steve Hampton Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Point Wilson
Jefferson, Washington, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Large seabird with long wings, slow laconic flight, wings long, pointed, and bowed, drooping until the tips almost touched the water. Long tail and long thin bill. Pink tones to the bill. Flight feathers blackish, head dirty blonde, and underparts perhaps paler. At 7:50 AM it came in low over the water from the direction of the red buoy, possibly from the MV Rachel Carson, which was passing by. It flew toward me right in front of the northeast corner of the point. Then it flew east and joined a feeding frenzy of gulls, cormorants, and rhinos on the water. The whole group then drifted northwest eventually out of view.
Technical information
- Model
- DSC-RX10M4
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 220 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/4.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/2000 sec
- Dimensions
- 3118 pixels x 2078 pixels
- Original file size
- 816.69 KB